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Other "guests" on the series included thinly disguised versions of celebrities who did not provide their own voices, such as guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. When a crooked car dealer on another episode was perceived by real-life Los Angeles car salesman Cal Worthington as being a send-up of him, he sued the studio (Hanna-Barbera), the sponsors and the five NBC-owned stations that carried the show.
In the fast-paced, modern age there will always be a generation gap between parents and their children. For this series, the studio also added a third belly laugh to add a little more "variety" (the only TV series made by Hanna-Barbera to have this added laugh). Despite being classified as an adult animated program, this show is considered tame in today's standards, unlike the newer prime time animated shows with even edgier adult themes, such as Family Guy and South Park. This program was made during the Seal of Good Practice, as several themes were limited for television until 1983. Tom Bosley provided the voice of the father, Harry and Joan Gerber played his wife, Irma. Both David Hayward and Lennie Weinrib (H.R. Pufnstuf) played the oldest son, Chet and both Jackie Earle Haley and Willie Aames played youngest son, Jamie.
Season 3
Wait Till Your Father Gets Home is an American comedy animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions that aired in first-run syndication in the United States from 1972 to 1974. The show originated as a one-time segment on Love, American Style called "Love and the Old-Fashioned Father". The same pilot was later produced with a live cast , but with no success. The show was the first primetime animated sitcom to run for more than a single season since fellow Hanna-Barbera show The Flintstones more than ten years earlier, and would be the only one until The Simpsons seventeen years later.
I do remember seeing a very humorous old lady, in at least one episode, who was paranoid, thinking that there was "a communist under every bed". My mother commented to me, at the time, that she thought that this character was a take-off from the old lady in the 1971 movie "Cold Turkey" , and I believe that she was correct. "Cold Turkey" came out a year before "Wait Till Your Father Gets Home" debuted. Jaimie was included after test audiences of the series complained that Harry was too embattled by his family's haranguing and the producers decided that he needed someone who agreed with his opinions. Seasons two and three have yet to be released by Warner Archive.
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Despite it all, Harry loves his family, and usually tries to support them. The show features Harry Boyle, wife Irma, daughter Alice, and sons Chet and Jamie. Like many animated series created by Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s, the show contained a laugh track created by the studio. For this show, the studio added a third belly laugh to add a little more "variety" (the only TV series made by Hanna-Barbera to have this added laugh). In addition, the laugh track was also slowed considerably.
Wait Till Your Father Gets Home is an adult animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera that aired in first-run syndication in the United States from 1972 to 1974. The series originated as a one-time segment on Love, American Style titled "Love and the Old-Fashioned Father." The same pilot was later produced with a live cast , but with no success. The series was the first primetime animated sitcom to run for more than a single season since The Flintstones more than ten years earlier and would be the only one until The Simpsons fifteen years later. It's really a shame that this series did not make more than one season's worth of episodes . When it debuted in '72, it had been 6 years since "The Flintstones" prime time show had ended. After "Wait Till Your Father Gets Home" ended, adult TV animation hit a dry spell for the next 15+ years, until The Simpsons began.
Season Two
One of the commentators mentioned that this was a Saturday morning cartoon. Wrong......it was aired during prime time, just like the original 1960 Flintstones series. The show was clearly aimed at an adult audience; not just because of the time slot; I remember that one of the show's sponsors was Haynes panty hose.
I cannot agree that this show was a parody of All in the Family, as this same commentator mentioned; at least not in the sense that the father figure was a parody of Archie Bunker. The father in this show was not at all bigoted, as was Archie Bunker . The series stars Tom Bosley as Harry Boyle, a long-suffering suburban everyman dad and restaurant equipment dealer. Harry often bickers with the more liberal Alice and Chet over various social issues of the day, with Irma endeavoring to remain neutral while Jamie is more sympathetic to his father's beliefs.
A conservative father butts heads with his family on various social attitudes of the day. On June 5, 2007, Warner Home Video released Season 1 of Wait Till Your Father Gets Home on DVD in Region 1 for the Hanna-Barbera Classics Collection. Warner Archive has yet to release season 2 and Season 3.
